Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-12-03

can not only count out the right num-
Der of drops, but one who can also
pray. That is the kind Of doctor | have
had in my house when sickness or
death came. / do not want any Of
your protligate or atheistic doctors
around my loved ones when the
BALANCES OF LIFE
are trembling. A doctor who has gone
through the medical college, and in
the dissecting room has traversed the
wonders of the human mechanism, and
found no God 10 the lady rinths, is IA
fool, and cannot doctor me or mine.
But, oh, the Clristian doctors! What
a comfora they have been in many of
our households. And they ought to
have "A warm place in u prayers, as
well rs praise on our tongues. Dear
old DIR. Skillman! My father doctor,
my mothers doctor, in the village
home He carried all the condolences
of all the families for ten miles around.
We all felt better as soon as we saw
him enter the house. His face pro-
nounced a beatitude before he said a
word. He welcomed all of US children
into life, and he closed the old peoples
eyes when they entered the last SUM
Der. / think | know what Christ said
to him when the old doctor got through
his work. think he was greeted with
the words: Come in, doctor, | was
sick and We visited me!' | bless God
that the number of Christian physicians
is multiplying, and some Of the stu
dents of the medical colleges are here
to-day, and | hail you and | bless you,
and | ordain you to the tender, beauti-
ful, heaven descC Ided work of a Chris
tan physician, and when youtake your
diploma from the Long Island Medical
college, to look after the perishable
body, be sure also to get "A diploma
fro the skies to look after the
IMPERIsHABLE SOUL.
Lee all Christian physicians unite
with ministers of the gospel in per-
suading good people that it is not be-
cause God is against them that they
sometimes feel depressed, but because
of their diseased body. | suppose Da-
yid, the psalmist, was no more pious
when he called on everything human
and angelic, animate and inanimate,
and from snowflake to hurricane, TO
praise God, than when he said "Out
of the depths Of hell have | cried unto
Thee, o. Lord or hat Jeremiah was
any better when he wrote his prophecy
than when he wrote his 'Lamenta-
tj,y, - 81. tl.t Lob - INV hfft.r
when he said: Il know that my Re-
dccmer liveth," than when covered all
over with the pustuleS Of ~elephantiasis
he sat in the ashes scratching the scabs
of with n broken piece Of pottery; or
that Alexander CrUden, the ~concordist,
was any better man when he compiled
the book that has helped ten thousand
students of the Bible, than when under
the power Of physical disorder he was
handcuffed and strait-waistcoated in
Bethnal Green insane asylum.
Il LIVER AND TIE MIND.
ooh" says some Christian man,
''no one ought to allow physical disor-
der &c depress his soul. He ought to
live 50 near to God as to be always in
the sunshine" Yes, that is good ad.
vice; but ! warrant that you, the man
who gives the advice, has a sound liv-
er. Thank God every day for healthful
hepatic condition, for, just as certainly
as you lose it, YOU will sometimes, like
David, and like jeremiah, and like
Cowper, and like Alexander Cruden,
and like ten thousand other invalids,
be playing a Dead March on the same
organ with which now you play a Toe
cata. My object at this point is not
only to emOlliate the criticisms of the
well against those in poor health, but
o show Christian people who are atra-
hilarious what is the matter with them.
Do not charge against the heart the
crimes of another portion of your or
ganism. DO not conclude that because
the path of heaven is not arbored with
AS fine a foliage, or the banks beauti-
fully showed under with exquisite crys-
anthemums as once, that therefore you
are on the wrong road. The road will
bring you out a. the same gate whether
you walk with the stride of an athlete
or come up on crutches. Thousands
of Christians morbid about their cXpe-
rience and morbid about their business,
and morbid about the present, and
morbid about the future, need the ser
mon | am now preaching.
EVILS OF SEWING WILD OATS.
Another practical use of this subject
is for the young. The theory is abroad
that they must SOW their wild oats,
and afterwards Michigan wheat. Lei
me break the delusion. Wild oats arc
generally sown in the liver. and they
a never be pulled up. They so pre-
occupy that organ that there is no
room for the lmplantation of a righteous
crop. You see aged men about us at
eighty, erect, agile, splendid, grand
old men. How much wild oats did
they sow between eighteen years and
thirtyP None, absolutely none. God
does not very often honor with old age
those who have in early life sacrificed
swine on the altar of the bodily temple.
Remember, o young man, that while
in after life, and after years of dissipa-
ton you may perhaps have your heart
changed, religion does not change the
liver. Trembling and staggering along
these streets to-day are men, all bent,
apJ JocayaJ op6 propoatpralv old Gov